[Rei won't comment on the nature of divinity. She lives that reality, and it's...complicated.]

Whether or not you care, it's just so alien that it probably can't even begin to fathom that statement. I mean, I'm sure you deal with aliens regularly, but they all probably eat and breathe and drink and to the kinds of things that living beings do.

[Her fists clench up, knuckles going white.]

Frankly I agree with you. I want to return to the colony myself. [Her voice shakes, and she's coming dangerously close to a meltdown.] I want...to not be separated from my friends, I don't really care where I am, so long as I'm not alone.